[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 4] [Senate] [Page 4718] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov] prayer The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer: Let us pray. Holy God, who sustains us with Your love, keep our Nation with Your powerful protection and incline the hearts of its citizens to do Your will. Use our lawmakers as instruments of Your providence. Heighten their gratitude for the blessings You have bestowed upon them, as You deepen their humility. Broaden their sense of justice to include the deprived and forgotten of our world. Lengthen the outreach of their compassion to include all who suffer, the homeless and the hungry, the persecuted, and the oppressed. Make them advocates of the voiceless, the weak, the poor, the elderly, and the neglected. Lord, sensitize them to the hurt of all people at home and abroad. We pray in Your matchless Name. Amen. ____________________